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Long, but pls read. I had a soothing dream about my dead relatives.. not creepy!

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well i was half asleep and half awake, and i was very scared at the moment, so i prayed god, please relieve my fright. and i was trying to clam myself down.. then i saw an old friend (still alive) of the family smiling while sitting at a fast food restaurant. then from the right side of my vision comes someone else, he was one of my moms bestfriends, and he was my uncle.. he died of old age when i was 4 or 5. the night he died my mom was terribly upset, and was crying on the phone in her room. i knew what had happened, but it didnt really click. all i remember is sitting on my floor in my room and looking into the mirror and then suddenly thinking "katherine, tell linda heaven is beautiful". katherine is my full name, and linda is my moms name. i remember the voice, it was male and smooth. the voice sounded calm and joyous. i didnt really understand, so i just kinda got up and walked in my moms room and told her, then she started smiling but crying harder at the same time. i never really understood until i was several years older.. i think uncle jimmy told me that. but in the dream, he just walked by and looked at me, and then sat next to the live friend of the family. then he turned and smiled and moved his arm and waved. he was wearing a tan pinstriped button up collared short sleeve shirt. then my vision came to my aunt lucielle, who died of poor health about two years ago. we werent very close, but i remember being at her house as a younger child. she was in a big empty space, prolly like a bonus room or something, but as it was empty, it was also homely. she was in a beige leather arm chair and she was just chilling, smiling, and giggling. then i moved onto my grandpa, wallace. he died while my dad was 8, and he was buried on my dads 9th birthday, so he died before i was even close to being born, resulting in me never meeting my grandfather. he died in a hotel fire in the 60's. when i saw him, it was full body, and he was standing alone in a road, gravel and dirt. theyre were trees behind him. but it wasnt like normal vision, it was like sepia or something. like an old picture. he dressed like soldier, which he was. he received a purple heart during the war. he was wearing dark leather shoes and his army suit was dark, dark green, he had an army hat on too. my dad looks a lot like his dad. and in my dream they did also. in my dream my grandpa just let out a crooked smiled and waved his right hand twice. he was so warm and welcoming looking, like he loved me. then i sorta got out of that weird limbo awake-sleep mode. and just opened my eyes, i felt warmer, and relieved. less freaked and scared. then i started to cry from happiness. do i have guardian angels out there looking out for me in my dreams? id like to think so, and it seems like it to me. i was so happy that it seemed like someone is always there w/ me.. while im scared. my deceased relatives, i suppose. then i started thinking, Jimmy, Wallace, and Lucielle. JWL, jwl. could that stand for Jesus' Wondrous Love? ironic.. :)

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  1. Wow.  I sure enjoyed your story.  You have a lot of people watching and helping you.  I am glad they gave you comfort.


  2. By the intensity of your expression here and detailed commentary it can be observed that you have had many suppressed feelings for a number of lost loved ones and have helped carry the burden of emotion for your mother and perhaps others in this for some time.

    The imagery of each individual's circumstance means little except something to do with the context of each one in terms of their life as you may know it or have heard of it.  How it was projected or synthesized is simply part of the gift of this 'dream'.  It does help convey a sense of normalcy for each lost loved one described here, even the scene is odd or unfamiliar in some way.

    Now comes the emotional release of these things - in a dream of closure.  How very unusual for it to be 'hosted' in an odd way by a living individual.  He must be someone trusted - perhaps someone who has listened at times and tried to offer comfort about these very things.  Perhaps he even shared some details that you had not known about some of these deceased relatives.  

    Your mind seems to have been ripe for this venting of pent-up detail and thoughts of those who have departed.  Your mother must have found these losses very difficult as well and perhaps you are still needed to help in closure there.

    All of this leaves a huge pile of feelings and memories in the subconscious mind - which must ventilate at some point.  You also had to reach a stage of maturity in the knowledge of these losses to gel them into releasable form.  Closure - or final release in peace of those gone on is necessary to us.  

    What is very odd is how this all happened at once - what a parade of long-gone loved ones, all appearing in ways that send the message that "it's OK - and let your mother know".  Of course it was discomforting in some ways - it's not a 'natural' thing to see the dead as alive.  But you obviously 'got it' and realize that they have gone on to a place beyond our knowing in this world - a place where they do not suffer.  Their various states of being in the surroundings you describe largely demonstrate that.

    Guardian angels?  Was this a 'visit' or dream?  None can answer that for certain - how you see that depends on your values, and you certainly state a belief in God above.  All things are possible - and regardless of the 'truth' these things are quite real to the dreamer - take that as a gift - from on high if that is your belief - there is no criticism from here on that.  That you were in a semi-lucid state - feeling partly awake - likely would add to the feeling that it was 'more than a dream'.  Again, perhaps it was - you must decide that in your own heart.  And, perhaps you consciously needed this resolution and partly guided it from a lucid state - but the subconscious relese came from that part of you that was 'asleep'.  

    The whole thing may have actually occurred during different episodes of sleep and semi-wakfulness as well - we cannot easily discern the difference when this sort of dream-state occurs, and time is a thing dreams pay no attention to.  Dreams last far less time than we imagine and warp our normal sense of time as we would know it in an alert, wakeful way.

    Meanings as to the initials?  I can't say, but that is an interesting thought.  What I would avoid is the fascination some have with such symbology and consider that despite great faith, coincidences do also occur in life experiences.  The trouble with over-reliance on 'code' in 'faith' is that it can undermine the latter - faith does not depend on 'proof' or 'code', but 'spirit'.  Your dream certainly was one of spirit, no doubt - whether of heart and mind or from beyond - that's up to you.

    Take the thing as a gift of closure - these people can be released now to their peaceful rest in your heart.  Let go of any hurts, worries or fears about their past pain in this life - it is finished and they are without that pain now.  Release any notions or wonderings of the horrors some of them faced in final moments - that too is gone - they know not of those things now.  Do share it with your mother - she may find comfort for herself both in having the message - and for your own peace.

    Someone is always there for you - that spirit is obvious in your heart.  Hold that gift close as well.

    You must decide - but all of this is what your 'dream' is about to this observer.

    All the best to you.

  3. That was a very nice story, very long too. I enjoyed it. This dream means you *do* have guardian angels looking after you, helping you when you are scared, calming you down. Though you never met your grandpa, you are his son's daughter, which makes him protective of you.  

  4. God does speak in dreams to us today like He did in the bible. He is speaking to you to reassure you that there is surley a heaven and to encourage you your relatives are safe with Him. These people are too probably as you remembered them and are part  of your soulish memories getting in there as well.(the ones you desbided remmebering as a kid)

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